Quotes About Anticipation

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks like, or how they look at the top of a pass route. Guys have tendencies. I try to understand what they do, which allows me to be successful.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

My best tennis will be when I'm 24, 25.

Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

It's always good to live in future tense.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

Normally you have more adrenaline, and more tension inside your body when you walk in and see the 80,000 fans screaming.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his 'social identity' - to use a term that is better than 'social status' because personal attributes such as 'honesty' are involved, as well as structural ones, like 'occupation.'

I'm really excited to see what the future hold for me in terms of work. It's going to be hard, but it's going to be good hard work, and I'm really excited for the challenge that awaits me.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly.